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*** It's especially bad when you realise that even if the Line does its job, you're talking about a few hundred humans left. This is an extinction level attack, and she's begging for whatever help she can to save a pitiful few hundred people. Reduces me to tears every time I see it.

*** Damn it, I've never even watched In The Beginning (though I've watched a lot of Babylon Five) and I just started tearing up.

** Likewise, Londo Mollari's account of the Human-Minbari war produced some tears as well.

{{quote| '''Londo Mollari:''' The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. But where another race would surrender to despair, the humans fought back with even greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space. In my life, I have never seen anything like it. They would weep, they would pray, they would say goodbye to their loved ones and then throw themselves without fear or hesitation at the very face of death itself. Never surrendering. No one who saw them fighting against the inevitable could help but be moved to tears by their courage and their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships, they used guns. When they ran out of guns, they used knives and sticks and bare hands. They were magnificent. I only hope, that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes at the end. They did this for two years. They never ran out of courage. But in the end, they ran out of time.}}

* For someone who knows the [[Backstory]], the meeting between Delenn and "King Arthur" in "A Late Delivery from Avalon". Both bore heavily the knowledge that they had helped to start the Earth-Minbari war. Indeed "King Arthur" might actually have fired the shot that killed Delenn's beloved mentor.

** The prequel [[Clip Show]] movie ''In The Beginning'' verifies that his flashback was the real deal. This also has the [[Hey Its That Guy|weird effect]] of giving Micheal York a half-second cameo in the film.

** Delenn and Lennier both look like they've been through the ringer in this one. {{spoiler|When he leaves Lennier looks like he's already been crying, but Delenn manages to hold it together until she's alone with Sheridan, and then... Ugh. She breaks down and we ''all'' cry with her.}}

* "No dictator... no invader... can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free." --G'Kar, ''The Long, Twilight Struggle''. I held my breath the whole time he was talking.

** The {{spoiler|[[Colony Drop]] on the Narn Homeworld}} that prompted that little speech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjIlqrAfbbg

** It's a much smaller moment, but when Delenn and Sheridan tell G'kar that they will only be able to bring a limited amount of help to his people, and he politely thanks them for what they're trying to do-then breaks into sobs and slides slowly down the wall, holding his face in his hands. Perhaps, as with the Londo moment above, the moment could have been ruined by a less capable actor-but Andreas Katsulas pulls it off so perfectly. Without saying a single word, he manages to convey every bit of sorrow, frustration, helplessnes, and desperation he feels at his inability to make things better. An impressive feat that most actors couldn't pull off au natural, but add in doing that through the cold, reptillian-looking Narn makeup, and Andreas has proven himself a beyond-amazing actor.